She also is a board member of the Telluride Foundation In 1998, Saint James, her sister Mercedes Dewey and friend Barrie Johnson founded "Seedling and Pip", a baby gift basket business. In her mid-40s Saint James proclaimed herself retired after Kate & Allie ended.In addition to motherhood (her second-youngest son was born during the fourth season of Kate & Allie), she's been an active volunteer with the Special Olympics (an organization she began actively supporting in 1972) ] she has in the past also served on their board and served as Civitan International's celebrity chairperson for their Special Olympics involvement. Saint James also was a celebrity and commentator for World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon. She received three more Emmy Award nominations for this role. After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television, appearing in the comedy series Kate & Allie opposite Jane Curtin from 1984 until 1989. Between films, she made a guest appearance in the Maepisode of M*A*S*H (Episode 192: War Co-Respondent). She achieved a significant success in the vampire comedy Love at First Bite (1979). She left the show to further her career as an actress in feature films such as co-starring with Peter Fonda in the film Outlaw Blues. Then came her first starring role as Rock Hudson's younger supportive wife, Sally McMillan, in the popular, light-hearted crime drama, McMillan & Wife (1971-1976), for which she received four Emmy Award nominations. She then went on to appear in the pilot episode of the western series Alias Smith and Jones (1971). She was featured in four episodes of the series from 1968 to 1970. This led to a recurring role playing a new character, Charlene "Chuck" Brown, Alexander Mundy's fellow thief and "friend with benefits". In 1967 she had a small part in the pilot episode of the Robert Wagner crime-caper series It Takes a Thief. She provided series continuity by appearing as a key supporting character in most episodes regardless of whether the lead that week was either of the three regular leads Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, Robert Stack, or special guest leads Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin, or Robert Wagner, all of whom helmed episodes in the revolving "wheel" format (she appeared in all the Tony Franciosa episodes, and once featured as co-lead with him in the second season episode 'The King of Denmark' where she had the larger featured onscreen role), while the first season story 'Pineapple Rose' (under Gene Barry's segment) prominently featured her when her character is kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. She also had a supporting role in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), the sequel to The Trouble with Angels.įrom 1968 to 1971, as a result of her very first role in Fame Is the Name of the Game, she had a regular part in the series The Name of the Game, winning an Emmy Award for her role as research assistant 'Peggy Maxwell' in 1969 and establishing her as a popular young actress. Among her other early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside ("Girl in the Night", December 1967 and two months later, playing a different role in the episode "Something for Nothing"). Her first screen role was in the TV-movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) with Tony Franciosa, launching her career when the film became a series two years later. She moved to California at age 20, when she began her acting career.
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